IP Library Granted Patent US 11,922,248
Granted Patent B2
US 11,922,248 · App. 17/801,432 · Granted Mar 5, 2024

Smart card

Inventors: Teng Zeng (Hubei, CN); Chen Fang (Hubei, CN); Wensheng Zhu (Hubei, CN)
Assignee: GIESECKE+DEVRIENT MOBILE SECURITY GMBH
G06K19/07722
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Patent No.
US 11,922,248
App. No.
17/801,432
Granted
Mar 5, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

The invention relates to a smart card, which includes: a card body, having an accommodating recess extending along its own thickness direction of the card body; a decorative part, at least part of the decorative part being embedded in the accommodating recess; in which the decorative part includes a base layer and decorative pieces, more than two decorative pieces are arranged on the base layer, the base layer is connected to the card body, the decorative pieces correspond to the accommodating recess along the thickness direction and are exposed to an external environment. The smart card of the invention can improve the stereoscopic sense, individuation and noble sense of the smart card by arranging the decorative parts with decorative pieces on the card body.

Claims (16)

1. A smart card, comprising:

a card body, having an accommodating recess extending along its own thickness direction; and

a decorative part, at least part of the decorative part being embedded in the accommodating recess;

wherein the decorative part includes a base layer and decorative pieces, more than two decorative pieces are arranged on the base layer, the base layer is connected to the card body, and the decorative pieces correspond to the accommodating recess along the thickness direction and are exposed to an external environment above a top surface of the card body;

wherein the accommodating recess is configured and dimensioned to receive the base layer from a top surface of the card body, the accommodating recess having a depth from the top surface formed short of a thickness of the card body;

wherein the decorative pieces are stacked on the base layer in the thickness direction such that the base layer extends from a recess surface of the accommodating recess in the thickness direction toward the top surface of the card body.

2. The smart card according to claim 1 , wherein the base layer is a flexible structure.

3. The smart card according to claim 1 , wherein the decorative part further includes a first adhesive layer, the base layer and the first adhesive layer being stacked along the thickness direction, and the first adhesive layer adhering the base layer and the decorative pieces.

4. The smart card according to claim 1 , wherein the decorative part further includes a filler, the filler filling a gap between two adjacent decorative pieces and being connected to the base layer.

5. The smart card according to claim 4 , wherein the decorative piece is at least one of diamonds, gems or jade; and/or the filler is a metal spherical structure.

6. The smart card according to claim 1 , wherein a height of the decorative part protruding from an opening of the accommodating recess is less than or equal to 0.46 mm.

7. The smart card according to claim 1 , wherein the smart card further includes a second adhesive layer, the second adhesive layer being arranged between the base layer and the card body and adhering the base layer and the card body.

8. The smart card according to claim 1 , wherein the decorative part further includes an embedding flange, the embedding flange being arranged on a side surface of the base layer and crossing a side wall of the accommodating recess and being embedded in the card body.

9. The smart card according to claim 8 , wherein the card body has a to-be-embedded gap, the to-be-embedded gap communicating with the accommodating recess, and the embedding flange being embedded in the to-be-embedded gap.

10. The smart card according to claim 1 , wherein the card body includes more than three-layer structures, the more than three-layer structures being stacked along the thickness direction, and the accommodating recess extending on at least two of the layer structures; and/or

a cross-sectional profile size of the accommodating recess being enlarged by 0.15 mm on the basis of a cross-sectional profile size of a part of the base layer located within the accommodating recess.

Assignments (4)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Jul 21, 2024
From: GIESECKE+DEVRIENT MOBILE SECURITY GMBH
To: GIESECKE+DEVRIENT EPAYMENTS GMBH
Reel/Frame 068465/0720 →
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Apr 26, 2023
From: GIESECKE+DEVRIENT MOBILE SECURITY GMBH
To: GIESECKE+DEVRIENT MOBILE SECURITY GMBH
Reel/Frame 063459/0190 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 20, 2023
From: GIESECKE+DEVRIENT (CHINA) TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
To: GIESECKE+DEVRIENT MOBILE SECURITY GMBH
Reel/Frame 063392/0175 →
EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT Recorded Apr 20, 2023
From: ZENG, TENG; FANG, CHEN; ZHU, WENSHENG
To: GIESECKE+DEVRIENT (CHINA) TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 063909/0687 →
Priority Claims (1)
CN 202020197177.6 · Feb 21, 2020 · national
Continuity (1)
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